Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	act_n	faith_n	work_n	2,998	5	6.1099	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45170	Vindiciae veritatis a narrative vindicating the truth against the invective, malicious, and slanderous back-biting aspersions of certain non-conformists in and about London passing under the notions of Presbyterians, and others their pupils and confederates concerning the truths published in my Little book of the covenants and The personal reign of Christ ... / by the author John Humphryes.	Humphreys, John, b. 1637.	1680 (1680)	Wing H3723; ESTC R28715	13,135	14

honour them and love them with my whole Soul Quid verba audiam cum facta videam Neither would I have attempted this Vindication but that not only to the Loss of my Reputation by calling me Antinomian but to my Life and Liberty by calling me a Jesuit and that in such a time when so many of that Faction have been found plotting the Nations Ruin and the Kings Majesties Life Had not their Envy struck also though most falsely and intestinely malicious at my Life and the Honour of the Gospel of Christ Sardis me auribus accepisse nisi propter veritatem Riv. Epist ad Balsac I assuredly would have passed all by in Silence which now I publish to the World for the sake of well minded Christians and the Interest of Christ Even so many of ours cry out the Gospel the Gospel and teach their Pupills to paratize like Caesar's Parrot that could cry out nothing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God save Caesar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so these can cry nothing but Our Gospel Ministers our Gospel Ministers like Parrots that speak by Roat what they are taught when these Disciples truly unless they have learned their Catechism by Head can say nothing by Experience or by Heart for their Teachers are truly nothing less in both Principle and Life having no more Love in their Lives than the Scribes and Pharisees had who gilded the Sepulchres of the Martyrs whom their Fathers killed whose Writings and Preachments are filled up with as bad Doctrine and as like as an Apple to a Pomewater as any is in Bellarmine Scotus Aquinas Huberus Hemingius or any of the Jesuits and Papists yet I will not betray my Folly to say they are Papists or my Knavery to say they are Jesuits but this I think of them that they ignorantly like the Jews and Pharisees of old teach and preach Popery and write it because they know not the Gospel Rom. 10.1 2 3 4. and herein their Pride also appears because they hate all that differ or dissent from their false Principles Hugo Grotius Papizat sic ejus Discipuli founding themselves upon Arminiasnism Grotianism and Papism rather pinning their Historical Faith upon mens humane Arguments than the pure infallible Word of God which is able to cut and hamstring all their Sophistry and false Phillosophy Col. 2.8 though guarded with the dialectical Spears of Aquinas Scotus or all the Popish Schoolmen as Rivetus in his Epist to Prince Frederick in Vindication of the Gospel against the Jesuits Gladium verbi Divini tractent cujus aciem merito reformidant unde est quodicam retundere conantur excogitatis varii generis sophismatibus quibus incautos deripiunt And I do the more wonder that I who have published my self to the World by two or three Tracts in open Hostility against the Doctrine of the Romanists and Arminians and also Socinians and plainly discovered my self to the World to be so great an Anti-arminian Papist Socinian should be by these Gospel Ministers called a Jesuit especially when I consider that in the Writings of some worthy men who like James Cephas and John Gal. 2.4 5 6 7 8 9. are supposed to be Pillars there is so much stuff as like Popish Doctrine as an Italian is like a Roman born and yet which adds to my Admiration their Readers and Hearers admires them with as great Confidence as if Paul were preaching or they were reading one of his Epistles My Proof for what I now say shall be notorious * See Mr. Baxters Saints Rest part 3. chap 8. p. 270. And this is the Doctrine that all men may be saved if they will and then I am sure that all men are not dead in Sins and Trespasses Ephes 2. as the Apostle affirms and the Psalmist Psalms 110.3 that Gods People even the Elect are not a willing People till by his Power he makes them so And that Testimony of Jerem 4. 22. V. My People are wife to do Evil but to do Good they have no Knowledge But may be some may credit Mr. B. before the Apostle and the Prophet or take his Interpretation before the plain Words of Scripture ‖ Part 3. chap. 11. Sect. 3. p. 445. And in the same Chapter that infallible Knowledge is not a Certainty of Faith now if Gods Promise to a Sinner be infallible then may a Sinner by Faith infallibly know it as John 6.37 Rev. 22.17 as his Portion Bellarmine can say nor does say no more than Mr. B. and Mr. B. in the same place says that he likes Bellarmine the Better You may if you will hang your Faith on Mr. Baxters Sleeve but I will not so long as Gods Word is unburnt and in the same Chapter he playes the Arminian neatly and in the last Sheet of the Book by affirming that common Grace in all men and special Grace in the regenerate differs not naturally or physically as he said but by a moral Specification that is in the comparative Degree And he says that Divines make special Grace to lye in four things 1. The Love of God whereby the Redeemer Justifies Elects and Saves these being immanent Acts in God as the Means extended for all to have the Benefit if they will 2. The Spirits act working and infusing the saving Act into the Soul or habitual Acts called Gratia Operans 3. The Effects of the Spirits work the new Creature the Seed remaining or real Holiness 4. The Exercise of these Habits and in it lies the Question about the Sincerity of Grace and the Difference between common and special Grace being as he saith in the Comparative Degree that is not Quality but Quantity No Divines but Papists Arminians and Grotians and Socinians ever held this Phaenomena in Divinity except him So that men may be elected loved of God justified redeemed and the Spirit may apply and infuse Habits and Dispositions at least and a new Creature may be regenerated and yet in the Acts and Exercise of these Habits there be not a Comparative Degree of Excellency that man may be an Hypocrite so then God may Love Justifie and Redeem Hypocrites Did ever Bellarmine or any of the Schoolmen or Jesuitical Tribe ever speak more to the Purpose see Sect. 8. chap. 11. and Sect. 6. beside Aug. lib. de fide chap. 14. Bona Opera sequuntur justificatum non precedunt Justificandum Good works follow a Person Justified as Fruits and Justification is an Act of free Grace that whoever hath it cannot perish and by Faith alone it is received and not by Love or any other Grace The Just shall live by Faith not any other Grace though other Graces as Love c. follow true Faith And quomodo saith Rivet qui vitam non habet potest operari who can work that hath no Life The Tryal of the Sincerity and Truth of our Grace should be placed in the Love of God and Acts of free Grace by him in Christ